The Full Tide - Free Audiobook
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The Full Tide
THE GLASS
THE GLASS
Your face has lost
The clearness it once wore,
And your brow smooth and white
Its look of light;
Your eyes that were
So careless, are how deep with care!
O, what has done
This cruelty to you?
Is it only Time makes strange
Your look with change,
Or something more
Than the worst pang Time ever bore?—
Regret, regret!
So bitter that it changes
Bright youth to madness,
Poisoning mere sadness ...
O, vain glass that shows
Less than the bitterness the heart knows.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Full Tide by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2023. ------ John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. This sea-side offering is taken from his POEMS NEW AND OLD (1920) (Summary by Wikipedia )
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